Posted on 06/09/2015 6:57:23 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world—the sole superpower. After five weeks of “shock and awe” and 100 hours of combat, Saddam’s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad.
Our Cold War adversary was breaking apart into 15 countries. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Germany was reunited. The captive nations of Central and Eastern Europe were breaking free. Bush I had mended fences with Beijing after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were friends.
The president declared the coming of a “new world order.” And neocons were chattering about a new “unipolar world” and the “benevolent global hegemony” of the United States.
Consider now the world our next president will inherit.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
GHWB started our seemingly inexhorable decline into the New World Order.
The election of 1992 turned on a media hoax — the false claim of a bad economy.
The Democrat operatives who dominated (and still do) the so-called “news” media and the so-called “entertainment” industry bamboozled the LIVs into electing someone who should have been unelectable. The draft dodging, dope smoking, serial abuser of women (and corrupt governor)Clinton.
That heinous campaign of disinformation and outright lies damaged America beyond repair.
Lampposts anybody?
Pretty much. Just incredible.
Bush I destroyed the Reagan revolution faster than any democrat could. The Bush’s are a blight.
An Empire by any other name will still eventually fall.
Right now, America is drunk on ‘stupid’. ‘Stupid’ is now fashionable. And of course it’s popular because THAT is a much bigger ‘club’ with a zero prerequisite for membership
Conservative America has let itself be routinely mugged by the Liberal MSM.
It’s as if they almost deserve what’s happening to them.
100 years from now, this will be seen as one of history's greatest mistakes
Pat missed a zero. Our trade deficit with Red China is closer to $40 billion.
Near the end of the article he tals about a cumulative $11 trillion trade deficit since GHWB. I have NO idea how he got that figure (especially if he has the deficit with Red China at $4 billion).
“Retrenchment is an imperative.”
Removal of the entrenched elites in the political class with sand-shifting FUBAR
undeclared war AFP and undeclared domestic looting is an imperative.
He definitely had an invasion of the body snatchers between his first and second terms.
Never saw that quote but it doesn’t surprise me.
The stupid. It burns.
We traded away our industrial seed corn for cheap perishables and Treasuries. We are a nation perishing under 100 years of war and a thousand cuts but wanting still more war for worldly ambitions.
During that campaign, in my early twenties, I watched and even commented to many that Clinton and the media were actually talking our economy into a recession! And they succeeded!
I have been so afraid that they were going to convince a clear majority that Obama’s economy is the greatest in the history of the United States (they certainly have tried, are trying, and continue to try to convince the LIVs)! Fortunately, America is more connected today and people KNOW the truth. There are those who believe the Democrats and MSM (one in the same), but I know way too many Democrats who KNOW the truth, as well!
It’s unfortunate that Reagan tried to unify the party by making Bush his VP. Had another conservative that shared Reagan’s views been the VP who knows where we (and the Bush family) would be.
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